YC Computer Students Work with AdaCore and SPARK On Friday, February 15, 2019, students in the Yeshiva College computer science program met with engineers from AdaCore, a global company that helps clients build high-integrity software. The workshop centered on SPARK Ada, a programming language that鈥
For decades now, a book has stopped being an object contained in pages between two covers carried in a reader鈥檚 hands and become a part of the digital universe that surrounds us. In The Future of the Book, 13 writers, including 12 黑料社 All faculty members, take on the challenge of ...
Paul Glassman Director of University Libraries At an annual conference for academic librarians at Rutgers University, James G. Neal, then Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University, spoke on 鈥淭he Imperfect Storm: The Prospects for Systemic Change Across鈥
Dr. Karen Shawn Associate Professor of Jewish Education and Administration; Founding Editor, PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators Holocaust literature will continue to serve as a central repository of trauma and memory for the generations who seek to learn the essentials of鈥
Dr. Cynthia Wachtell Director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program and Research Associate Professor of American Studies When I think of the future of the book, I think of the past of the book. In particular, I think of one special book: The Backwash of War, by Ellen N. La Motte. I have been ...
Dr. Lisa Chalik Assistant Professor of Psychology We think a lot about how to communicate positive values to our children. We model good behaviors. We reward prosocial actions. We read stories based around positive morals. The list goes on. All of this is to say that we try to cram as much moral ...
Dr. Tamar Avnet Professor of Marketing and Chair of the Marketing Department, Sy Syms School of Business In order to answer this question, one first needs to understand what value a book brings to its readers. In marketing, we differentiate between a product鈥檚 features and the value or benefits ...
Dr. Jeffrey Freedman Professor of History Predictions of the book鈥檚 imminent death are nothing new. From the advent of mass circulation daily newspapers in the 19th century to the spread of movies, radio and television in the 20th, the prophets of cultural doom have repeatedly declared the book to鈥
David Lavinsky Associate Professor, English Writing at midcentury, Marcel Thomas, keeper in the Department of Manuscripts at the Biblioth猫que nationale, surmised that 鈥渢he new media of our age, broadcasting and the cinema, may help us grasp how ideas and works can be transmitted without passing ...
Rabbi Shalom Carmy Assistant Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Bible Online, I can access thousands of Torah books. I can read or confirm a citation in thousands of classic works of literature, philosophy and history. Innumerable scholarly journals, once available only in specialized libraries ...